Amritsari Chole | Amritsari Chole Masala Recipe

Amritsari Chole | Amritsari Chole Masala Recipe

Amritsari Chole or street style Amritsari chole masala is popular chole or chana masala recipe that normally is served with kulcha or bhatura, naan, paratha or variety rice, pulao as well. There are few ways of making amritsari chole and this is street style or dhaba style amriti chole the only difference is I didn't added tea bag to bring the dark brown color like we get in dhaba or in restaurants as I am not a big fan of adding tea bag to chole.

Most of the people like chole either with kulcha, bhatura as it's served or even with simple pulao, jeera rice it makes wonderful side dish. I made chole kulcha for lunch and there's no kulcha in picture as I didn't cook, serving hot kulcha is always preferred :) This Amritsari Chola recipe is little different from the Chana masala or chole masala that I have posted earlier. Amritsari Chole is excellent party or potluck recipe as most of the people will love it and we can serve this with almost anything as side.

If you want add a tea bag while boiling soaked chickpeas (chana) and then discard it to bring the beautiful dark brown color to chole, dried amala helps to bring light brown shade too so I didn't added tea bag. You might think list of ingredients is long but it's all normal ingredients that we use and if we do the cooking in proper planning then we can make this without much hassel like while chickpeas getting boiled prepare spices powder and roasted onion paste and start cooking the masala it will save lot of time for you. Try this and let me know how you liked it.

Cook until oil leaves edges with stirring in intervals in medium to slow flame, add chana cooked water that we reserved plus 1 or 2 cups water if needed and bring to good boil. Mash few chana with back of ladle, this makes gravy thicker, keep flame to medium and let it simmer for 5-8 mins or until oil floats on top. Now add amchur powder, pomegranate seeds powder, lemon juice and simmer for a minute, add coriander leaves mix everything and off flame.